{"id":7937,"date":"2013-05-19T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/upper-chest-workout-routine\/"},"modified":"2013-05-19T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T18:52:11","slug":"upper-chest-workout-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/upper-chest-workout-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Chest Workout Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to chest training most guys have trouble filling out the upper chest and creating that nice full square chest look. Rather than the droopy look that comes from over developed lower pecs. <\/p>\n<p>Most people usually do not have much problem with the lower pecs because the bench press, which primarily targets the lower chest, is one exercise that always finds its way into everyone&#8217;s chest workout. <\/p>\n<p>For the regular iron pumper the bench press quickly becomes the yard stick by which your worth as a man is measured with the ever famous question&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJX5MKacR6M\" title=\"How Much Can Ya Bench?\" target=\"_blank\"><U>&#8220;How much can ya bench?&#8221;<\/U><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, in this workout we&#8217;re going to put the barbell bench press on the back burner and focus instead on filling out the upper chest with a complete workout routine that will target the upper pecs from a full range of motion &#8211; mid-range, fully stretched, and peak contraction.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"brown\">Click PLAY To Watch The Chest Workout:<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LZjXLRzj_vA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<I><U>Note:<\/u> if you are on an iPad and can&#8217;t watch the embedded video clip above,<br \/>\nyou can watch it right on my YouTube Channel by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LZjXLRzj_vA\" title=\"Upper Chest Workout Routine\" target=\"_blank\"><U>Clicking Here<\/u><\/a><\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The unique thing about this workout is that in between each exercise we are going to do a set of push ups. This will pump a lot of blood volume into your chest and it works great for spurring on new growth in the chest.<\/p>\n<p><U><strong>The complete workout includes:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Push Ups &#8211; 10+ reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Incline Dumbbell Bench Press &#8211; 3 sets of 8-10 reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Push Ups &#8211; 10+ reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Incline Dumbbell Fly &#8211; 3 sets of 10-12 reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Push Ups &#8211; 10+ reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cable Cross Overs &#8211; 3 sets of 10-12 reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Push Ups &#8211; 10+ reps<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Incline Chest Press &#8211; 3 sets to failure<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nGive this chest workout a try for yourself and leave me a comment below&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this workout we&#8217;re going to focus on training the upper chest with a complete workout routine that will work the mid-range, fully stretched, and peak contraction ranges of motion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chest-workouts","category-workout-exercise-videos","category-workout-routines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-241","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}